"It's something that we need to get right in the summer and recruit players who are winners and want to put the ball in the net.

"It's important that we recruit winners - players who aren't used to losing. I think over the last two or three seasons the standards haven't been good enough and the recruitment is going to be massive this summer.

"Obviously there's Financial Fair Play and things like that. We need to recruit hungry players who it means everything to them to win games."